Lynn Welter Sherman

Transactions and bankruptcy attorney Lynn Sherman joined Adams and Reese in 2012 as a Partner in the firm’s Tampa office. Practicing law since 1983, Lynn represents financial institutions, special servicers of securitized commercial mortgages, creditors, trustees, landlords, debtors, and other parties in all aspects of Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcies, out-of-court workouts, loan modifications and restructuring, foreclosures, enforcement of judgments, enforcement of security interests, and creditors’ rights litigation.

Licensed in both Florida and New York, Lynn has been recognized among the top Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights attorneys by Florida Super Lawyers®, Best Lawyers in America®, Florida Trend Magazine’s Legal Elite, and listed among “Tampa Bay’s Top Attorneys” by Tampa Bay Magazine. In 2014 and 2015, Lynn has been ranked among the Top 50 Women Florida Super Lawyers® and also the Top 100 Overall Florida Super Lawyers®.

Lynn is active in the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association and serves on The Florida Bar Executive Council as the 2015-2016 chair of the Bankruptcy/UCC Committee of the Business Law Section. She also served as the Section's former Communications Chair. Lynn is a former adjunct professor at her alma mater, Stetson University College of Law, where she earned her J.D. in 1983. She also received an LL.M. in Taxation from the New York University School of Law in 1989.

Lynn received her bachelor of science at Florida Southern College in 1980.